Right
now, the church is being attacked for opposing an RH bill to "control
population" by pushing it to the poor ingovernment clinics (as opposed
to supplying it via the private sector, as it is now). Along with this
is a new "sex ed" course in public schools, and in the wings, legal
divorce and abortion.

PNoy is trying to counter the
Catholic opposition to these bills by courting the Evangelicals, a group
that includes many businessmen and middle class people and does use
birth control.

And everyone, including the Pope, is
worried that soon there will be an explosion of abuse or similar charges
against the church here in the Philippines, in order to destroy it as
was done in Ireland (where 257 cases of abuse over 85 years was blown out of proportion to destroy people's beliefs).

But
when it comes to gays, who are not really discriminated againt here in
the sexually easy going Philippines, it is the Evangelicals who also
would be more strict.... the result of gay bigotry against the hero of
the Philippines might result in his support by that influential group
also (like Estrada, he is a populist from the people, not a scion of the
rich families, like Arroyo or Aquino and most of those who run the
Philippines).

The old Lefty Bishop Cruz
comments here pretty well gives the problem: Making population control
the cure all, because they see fewer poor people the way to eliminate
poverty when corruption and bribery is the real reason for poverty...

I've
worked in third world countries, and we provided contraception to space
children to protect the lives of the mother and child was part of our
outreach. But this was voluntary, and not government mandated, and used
local "pill ladies" to supply contraceptives...

But
once you get governments involved, you get human rights abuses, since it
makes children the enemy to be eliminated....and programs in such
diverse places as India and Peru (not to mention China) have resulted in
horrific human rights abuses, where the governments, not the women,
making the choice.

as for "same sex marriage": the
problem with this is that this idea is based on the modern feminist idea
that gender is a social construct, and that there is no difference
between men and women. And this gender confusion in the US is simply not
backed by either custom or biology. To make things worse, many people
here are aghast at the promiscuity of our TV shows...what we see on some
shows here would make Nero blush...

Societal and
religious leaders point to the poor state of women in the US, who are
abandoned to raise their children alone, suggests the modern
deconstruction of gender is not a good idea, and indeed, might be
working against the stability of the family.

Poor
people who have experience know this, which is why Obama's gay rights
agenda is so abhorrent to poor countries, that see this as an attack
against the family...

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update; I edited the article and tried to make it clearer and posted in on BloggerNews LINK